Fidel Castro's ashes began a four-day journey across Cuba on Wednesday from Havana to their final resting place in the eastern city of Santiago. A small, Cuban-flag covered cedar coffin containing the remains of the 90-year-old leader was taken out of Cuba's Defense Ministry just after 7 a.m. and...

Regional leaders and tens of thousands of Cubans jammed the Plaza of the Revolution on Tuesday night, celebrating Fidel Castro on the spot where he delivered fiery speeches to mammoth crowds in the years after he seized power.The presidents of Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela and South Africa,...

With Cuba already generating new flights and cruises, South Florida's business community might be looking to other business prospects following the death of Fidel Castro last week. But that would require radical change, so don't hold your breath, experts say. Any reforms or economic benefits would...

Hundreds of thousands of Cubans bade farewell to Fidel Castro on Monday, pledging allegiance to his socialist ideology and paying tribute before images of the leader as a young guerrilla gazing out over the country he would come to rule for nearly half a century. Lines stretched for hours outside...

President-elect Donald Trump's threat Monday to "terminate" the U.S. detente with Cuba could trigger opposition from some Republican lawmakers and corporate leaders who favor continued engagement with Havana. Since 2014, when President Barack Obama began to normalize relations with the island,...

For many Latin Americans growing up in the '60s, Fidel Castro was a hero who defended the poor and fought against oppression. But for many immigrants who settled in South Florida, Castro evolved into a tyrant who tried to spread his revolution throughout Latin America, and who many blame for creating...

When the news of Fidel Castro's death broke in the predawn hours of Saturday morning, South Florida's Cuban community responded with celebrations that lasted long into the evening. By Sunday morning, honking horns, sidewalk chants and clanging pots and pans had given way to ruminative conversations...

For many, Fidel Castro's death is like the lifting of a heavy fog, a defining moment that will carve out a new path and allow Cuba to move forward. But some analysts say the revolutionary government remains firmly in place and they see no immediate changes coming to the island. His brother Raúl...

Miami’s Cuban-American community tapped enduring symbols of its decades-old exile Sunday to demand a democratic future for communist Cuba now that Fidel Castro is dead — beginning with a cathartic rally planned for Wednesday at the Bay of Pigs Memorial in Little Havana for “all who have been affected...

Fidel Castro once called George W. Bush a "functional illiterate." President Reagan was "the worst terrorist in the history of mankind," Castro said, with ideas "from the Buffalo Bill era." Castro thrived on confrontation with U.S. leaders, and he almost surely would have enjoyed facing off against...

No one had a more important and enduring role in Florida politics in the last half century than the now-deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, whose presence galvanized legions of voters and influenced the outcome of local, state and national elections. His absence could hasten a change that's already...